Joe Burrow or Colston Loveland: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Joe Burrow at 17.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 19th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

The player markets price Colston Loveland at 10.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 171 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 171 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

Through Week 4, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 87 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Colston Loveland was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 7.1 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 and Colston Loveland TE12, which are two different ladders.

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and Colston Loveland a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Colston Loveland in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.